Letters -- Published July 29, 2014

As negotiations over Iran's nuclear program continue, I hope my senators and my representative will seize this opportunity to publicly speak out in support of diplomacy.

As negotiations over Iran's nuclear program continue, I hope my senators and my representative will seize this opportunity to publicly speak out in support of diplomacy.

New sanctions or other saber-rattling measures could undermine the progress our diplomats have made toward a multi-year agreement that guards against a nuclear-armed Iran and the risk of another war over this issue.

We don't need another costly war. Spend war money on educating our vets and taking care of their medical problems.

Donna Sue JacobiSan Andreas

The law-breaking actions of President Barack Obama - usurping legislative authority and unilaterally rewriting the health care law more than 20 times, making recess appointments when the Senate was not in recess and others - have gone way too far.

And it's much worse. Because of his refusal to enforce our immigration laws, President Obama is now literally responsible for the murders of 19 Americans and other crimes.

Criminal illegal immigrants released by the Obama Administration between 2009 and 2011 went on to be charged with 19 murders, three attempted murders and 142 sex crimes, according to a House Judiciary Committee report.

Last year, Obama's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency released another 36,000 convicted criminal aliens who had almost 88,000 criminal convictions, including for 193 murders, 426 sexual assaults, 303 kidnappings and 1,075 aggravated assaults.

Although Mr. Obama still has 21/2 years left to violate the Constitution and break our laws, short of impeachment, the best way to deal with him is to remove his underlings, like Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Stockton, who could care less about our borders. A vote against McNerney is a vote for sanity - and stopping the release of criminal illegal aliens.

Sara BlicharzStockton

My deepest condolences to the family of the bank customer taken hostage and killed July 16. My prayers go out to her family and the two other victims.

That said, I notice that news media reported that the three thugs were heavily armed and carrying AK-47 weapons. I'll bet that if all the law-abiding people in that bank had carried concealed weapons, the story would have had a happier ending.

Bad people can always get weapons. Tough gun laws affect only the decent citizens. Evil always find a way.